Patrick Eagar

Patrick Eagar (born 1944) is a British cricket photographer, who took photos at 325 Test matches, including 98 Ashes Test matches, between 1965 and 2011.

Early life Patrick Eagar is the son of former Hampshire cricket captain Desmond Eagar. Eagar's first camera was given to him by his grandmother when he was 8 or 9 years old. During his time at Cambridge, Eagar worked for Varsity newspaper and Image.

After a rise in freelance photographers, Eagar began to cover matches on a more frequent basis, beginning with the 1972 Ashes series in England. In the 1972 Headingley Ashes Test, Eagar had just one over to take a photograph for The Sunday Times to use for the next day's newspaper. The 300th Test match where Eagar took photos was at Lord's in 2007, and the 2010 Ashes match in Perth was his 100th England-Australia Test match. He had produced over half a million images.

Works Eagar, Patrick, Arlott, John, An Eye for Cricket, 1980, Hodder & Stoughton, Eagar, Patrick, Ross, Alan, A Summer to Remember (England v Australia 1981), 1981, Collins, Eagar, Patrick, Wright, Graham, Test Decade 1972–82, 1982,